Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City
The Visiting Mode in Manchester, 1832-1914
1st Edition
Published on 2. July 2019
122 pages
978-1-000-01221-7 (ISBN)
Description
This study explores the 'ecology of knowledge' of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society, through an exploration of the history of Victorian Manchester, and two specific case studies on the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell and the campaigns for educational extension which emerged out of the city. It argues that crucial to the Victorians' approaches was the 'visiting mode' as a particular discursive formation, including its institutional foundations, its characteristic modes and assumptions, and the texts which exemplify it. Recognition of the importance of the visiting mode, it is argued, offers a fundamental challenge to established Foucauldian interpretations of nineteenthcentury society and culture and provides an important corrective to recent scholarship of nineteenth-century technologies of knowing.
Reviews / Votes
"Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City is a fascinating and invaluable corrective to Joyce's instrumentalism. Throughout, Hewitt emphasises the importance of lines of sight and visual impressions: hence the role of housing conditions as synecdoche for social situation." - Simon J Morgan, Leeds Beckett UniversityMore details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
4 Halftones, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-01221-7 (9781000012217)
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Martin Hewitt
Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City
The Visiting Mode in Manchester, 1832-1914
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Martin Hewitt
Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City
The Visiting Mode in Manchester, 1832-1914
Book
07/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
Martin Hewitt is Professor of History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Content
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: the 'statistical moment' and its limits
The Visiting Mode
The Cartographic Imaginary
Gaskell's Manchester: the Visiting Mode in Fiction
The Case of Educational Reform
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: the 'statistical moment' and its limits
The Visiting Mode
The Cartographic Imaginary
Gaskell's Manchester: the Visiting Mode in Fiction
The Case of Educational Reform
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
